Swades Foundation
Bhakti (Sathe) Arora is a Senior Manager with extensive experience in the field of fundraising, resource mobilization, and partnerships in various organizations, including Swades Foundation, Population Services International, and Make A Wish Foundation of India. Bhakti has a strong educational background with degrees in social work, human resources, and development management. They have also worked as a lecturer in industrial social work and as a consultant for recruitment in the social sector. Throughout their career, Bhakti has demonstrated a commitment to making a positive impact in the social sector through their work.
Swades Foundation
Founded by Ronnie & Zarina Screwvala, we operate with a single-minded focus of empowering 1 million Rural Indians every 5-6 years. We are bringing together best global practices, corporate thinking and accountability, highest standards of corporate governance to create a model of sustainable development, which is an industry benchmark and replicable at scale. Our vision: Build a model for sustainable and irreversible change by empowering rural communities to become self-dependent, creating rural communities as a strong asset to 21st century India. Our strategy: To Engage, Empower, Execute and Exit. To engage rural communities with corporates, urban youth, NGOs and governments and empower them to co-execute programs that transform their lives which enables our exit, creating role models and change agents for the rest of the country. We currently execute ~35 programmes in our geography and work with partners including Tata Trusts, Reckitt Benckiser, Deutsche Bank, UTI AMC, HSBC, Mahindra & Mahindra AFS, HDFC Bank, Australian Consulate - General Mumbai and RBL Bank to name a few.